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and Smith, all granite and bluffy ; bottom, rocky, muddy, weedy and rushes ; 

 inlet, Jack and Eel Creeks and Burleigh Falls, which is a continuation of Lovesick 

 Deer Bay, Buckhorn, Pigeon, Cameron, Sturgeon and Scugog Lakes ; bass, lunge, 

 salmon trout, sucker whitefish, with large quantities of catfish, suckers, etc., are 

 found in the lake, all the fish are well fed and of good size ; water, dark ; outlet, 

 Clear Lake and Idian River. 



" Clear Lake, in county of Peterboro, between the townships of Duro and 

 Smith, about five miles long and one to one and one-half miles wide, ten to one 

 hundred feet deep ; Smith shore, clay, sand, bluff and granite rock ; Duro shore, 

 clay, bluff and limestone rock ; bottom, rocky, muddy, weeds and rushes ; 

 inlet, Stony Lake ; outlet, Kathcawanooka Lake ; water, rain colour ; the princi- 

 pal fish are lunge, bass, salmon trout, whitefish, herrings, and all other kinds of 

 small fish, all are well fed and a good size. 



" Rice Lake, in the counties of Northumberland, Peterboro, Durham and 

 Hastings, Townships of Asphodel, Otonabee, South Monagan, Haldimand, Hamil- 

 ton and Alnwick : twenty miles long, two to five miles wide, five to thirty feet 

 deep ; bottom, mud, gravel and weedy ; shores, marshy ; inlets, Otonabee, Indian 

 and Owze Rivers and several creeks; outlet, Trent River; water, dark blue; fish, 

 lunge and bass, and all other kinds of small fish. 



" Scugog Lake, in the counties of Ontario, Durham and Victoria, townships 

 of Reach, Mariposa, Cartwright, Manvers, township of Scugog or Scugog Island is 

 surrounded by Scugog Lake ; length, some twenty miles, width, one-half to three 

 miles, depth, five to ten feet ; shores, mostly marshy and bluffy; bottom, muddy, but 

 stony in places ; inlet, Cedar, Nonquon and several other small creeks ; outlet, 

 Scugog River ; color of water, dark ; lunge and bass are the game fish, with any 

 quantity of catfish, sunfish, suckers, with a few perch, all well fed and of good 

 size. 



" Most of the back lakes are of similar formation and same kinds of fish .'' 



1. Name of the lake. 



2. The county or counties in which it is situated. 



3. The township or townships in which it is situated. 



4. The length of the lake. 



5. The width of the lake. 



6. The depth of the lake. 



7. Shores ; (state formation, and if different on different sides, state what 

 difference. It may be bluffy on one side and low on the other, or it may be rocky 

 on one side and marshy on the other.) 



8. Bottom of the lake ; (state whether muddy, sandy, gravel, clay, marl, 

 stony, rocky,, weedy, or rushes.) 



9. What inlets. 



10. What outlets. 



11. The color of the water. 



12. The kinds of fish inhabiting the waters, as far as you are able to say. 



13. Whether the fish appear well fed or are poor — if good size or small. 



District Overseer Judd reports as follows : 



" I have the honour of submitting to you this my second annual 

 report concerning the working of the Fishery Laws in the territory under my 

 supervision. 



In my former report I took occasion to refer, to the extent of territory, the 

 quality of fish therein, the question of protecting the same, the revenue derived 

 therefrom, and particularly that of the Rideau waters. 



In this I am pleased to practically confirm the beneficial effects of a vigorous 

 policy of protection, which we, as your officers, have endeavoured to adopt. 



